So much of this stuff that they claim to care about falls under the category of "Stuff the Fed has no business being involved with in the first place." To vote for a democrat is to vote for INCREASED federal involvement.
To vote for a conservative is to vote for someone who understands the inappropriateness of federal involvement and, whether he agrees with it or not, will attempt to remove the Federal government from the equation.
I dunno.
Most of my generation, Gen X-ers to the 30 year age threshold, are conditioned to think government should do 'this' or government should do 'that' as well as 'there aughta be a law.'
So they see government as an end all be all, and think in terms of 'government' instead of 'right and wrong'.